Playhem - Daily Cash Prizes - Bronze through GM!

Playhem is a revolutionary eSports site that allows players to wager points or cash against friends (and enemies) in head-to-head matches and tournaments. Although offering support for a variety of different Xbox and Playstation3 games, the focus of this post will be solely on Starcraft2. When playing a game using Playhem, whether it's head-to-head or in a tournament, both users press "I'm Ready" on the site before playing their game and the Playhem platform automatically detects the winner! If it's a head-to-head match the winner will automatically be transferred their winnings and if it's in a tournament you'll be automatically advanced in the bracket.

The tournaments will be broken down into groups of leagues to give all players an equal chance of winning tournaments. The leagues will be divided as follows:

-Bronze-Silver
-Gold-Plat
-Diamond
-Masters and Grandmasters

Monday-Sunday ~ 6:00pm PST / 9:00pm EST

-MLG Metalopolis
-MLG Shattered Temple
-MLG Shakuras Plateau
-MLG Xel'Naga Caverns
-GSL Cross Fire SE
-GSL Crevasse
-GSL Terminus RE
-GSL Tal'Darim Altar

Every new user starts with 500 points.

Points are used on Playhem for players that don't want to wager cash against eachother or in user-created tournaments. They're also used to buy-in to tournaments for cash prizes that are sponsored by Playhem.

You can get points a variety of ways including:
-Winning head-to-head matches
-Winning points tournaments
-Participating in Playhem Bonus Point giveaway tournaments
-Posting a game result to facebook or twitter (20 points per post on each site)
-Referrals (Earn 350 points for each referral that plays 3 games on Playhem)
-Playing on Playhem! (200 bonus points every 5 games played)

*Still finding yourself low on points? Let me know and I'll boost your account a little bit =P*

Besides using points to buy-in to cash prize tournaments hosted by Playhem, they can also be traded in for different prizes that are auctioned off on Playhem's facebook. Some previous prizes have included a Tritton AX 180 gaming headset, a Sony PlayStation 3 console, and Dr. Dre's Beats headphones.

Please note that giving away points is prohibited and could result in suspension.

Single Elimination.

Playhem's regular caster is FrodanSAGA. If you aren't familiar with him, check out the SAGAcity Invitational that he casted alongside Catspajamas. Various guest casters may also make appearances at any time to cast alongside Frodan. The Plat-Diamond Saturday tournament and the Master-Grandmaster Sunday tournament will both be casted and depending on the schedule, the Bronze-Gold Saturday tournament may also be casted. Check out Frodan's stream!

*Video guides are coming soon!*

Creating An Account/Adding Starcraft2

From the Playhem homepage you can create an account by either connecting your facebook account or signing up without it. After logging in, go to "Manage Games" at the top and add Starcraft2 with your bnet profile url and your character code, hit "Save" and you're ready to start playing!




Can I have multiple accounts?

Multi-accounting is not allowed on Playhem. We will soon be implementing multiple region accounts so you can link multiple regions of Starcraft2 accounts to the same Playhem account but we have zero tolerance for the smurfing of lower league tournaments and doing so can result in suspension and/or permanent ban.


Creating A Tournament

From the "Tournaments" page, any user can easily create a tournament with league restrictions, entry fee, bracket size, prize distribution, round length (best of 1, 3, 5, or 7) and choose starting maps for each round.






How do I select map for a head-to-head match?

For the time being, both players just agree on a map via either the head-to-head chat on the site or in-game chat. We'll be adding best of X and map pools to the head-to-head matches in the near future.